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Player Focus: Stuttgart Finally Realise Kostic Potential - But is it Too Late?

by Dinesh Hardayal at Thursday, May 14 2015 16:11
Player Focus: Stuttgart Finally Realise Kostic Potential - But is it Too Late? Some may deem a 3-2 lost at the hands of Borussia Dortmund a modest result, but the scenes that followed in a late winter night match in Swabia told another 
story. An atmosphere of trepidation from the home fans was clear, as the final whistle drew ever close. VfB Stuttgart, now losing 3 matches on...
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Match Report: Gerrard Ovation the Highlight in Predictable Battle at the Bridge

by Dinesh Hardayal at Sunday, May 10 2015 20:00
Match Report: Gerrard Ovation the Highlight in Predictable Battle at the Bridge Liverpool's season effectively came to an end with a draw against newly crowned champions Chelsea on Sunday. A superior goal difference all but secures a Champions League spot for Manchester United, currently lying in 4th. In a match that was fairly patchy, with neither side managing to sustain a pe...
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Match Report: Familiar Foe Aguero Puts End to Spurs Season

by Dinesh Hardayal at Monday, May 4 2015 11:17
Match Report: Familiar Foe Aguero Puts End to Spurs Season In a fixture which has seen 17 goals over the last 3 meetings, with Manchester City coming out on top as comfortable victors on each occasion, a solitary goal this time around sufficed as sufficient winning margin over Tottenham - but although the outcome of the match remained the same, this was by ...

Player Focus: Gladbach Mastermind Xhaka Now Among Europe's Most Wanted

by Dinesh Hardayal at Tuesday, Mar 17 2015 10:26
Player Focus: Gladbach Mastermind Xhaka Now Among Europe's Most Wanted It’s rare that we credit footballers for their intelligence, but in a recent sports study it was determined that the footballing elite of the world demonstrate above-average cognitive abilities, excelling at tasks such as creative problem solving, multi-tasking and possessing the ability to re...
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Match Report: Momentum Building As Liverpool Edge Past Palace into Last 8

by Dinesh Hardayal at Sunday, Feb 15 2015 10:00
Match Report: Momentum Building As Liverpool Edge Past Palace into Last 8 In recent times Selhurst Park has been an inauspicious ground for Brendan Rodgers’ Liverpool side, but here the Eagles' fans were looking even further into the past for inspiration, hoping to summon a similar performance from their historic win over Liverpool in the 1990 FA Cup semi-final.Coin...
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Match Report: Hurri-Kane Blows Gunners Away at the Lane

by Dinesh Hardayal at Monday, Feb 9 2015 09:00
Match Report: Hurri-Kane Blows Gunners Away at the Lane “When you have scored the number of goals that he has scored, if England don’t put him in there (the national side), somebody else will give him a passport!” Arsene Wenger joked after he was asked if Harry Kane was good enough to play for the Three Lions. It’s probably the on...
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Match Report: Chelsea's Experience Edges the Battle of the Bridge

by Dinesh Hardayal at Wednesday, Jan 28 2015 10:00
Match Report: Chelsea's Experience Edges the Battle of the Bridge After a fiercely contested draw at Anfield a week ago, many would have anticipated the fiery affair that followed in the return leg between Chelsea and Liverpool. It was a match full of controversy on an off the pitch. Mourinho missing the winning goal epitomised the hostility of this heated battle,...
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Player Focus: Emre Can - The Most Useful Player at Rodgers' Disposal

by Dinesh Hardayal at Wednesday, Jan 21 2015 14:38
Player Focus: Emre Can - The Most Useful Player at Rodgers' Disposal The most complete player I have seen in my career. Those were the emphatic words of former Dortmund and Tottenham player Steffen Freund, following an interview during the FIFA U17's World Cup in 2011. Then coach of the German side, Freund was left fawning over his side's captain, who scored one of t...
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Match Report: Giroud and Cazorla Fire as Arsenal Gun Down Magpies

by Dinesh Hardayal at Sunday, Dec 14 2014 10:20
Match Report: Giroud and Cazorla Fire as Arsenal Gun Down Magpies Arsène Wenger must have become all too familiar with the volatile attitude of some fans during his eighteen year reign at the club. One week you could experience an unwarranted set of emotions from impassioned fans and next, the same set of fans will be jubilantly chanting your name. His resp...
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Team Focus: Sought After Weinzierl Defying Odds with Industrious Augsburg

by Dinesh Hardayal at Friday, Dec 12 2014 12:36
Team Focus: Sought After Weinzierl Defying Odds with Industrious Augsburg Henry Ford famously once said Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” It’s a quote befitting of the cohesion of an Augsburg side currently lying in 3rd place in the Bundesliga. The man behind the wheel of their success is Markus Weinzie...
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